"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"

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"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"

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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."

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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."

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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

John Green, American Author

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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius."

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

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"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."

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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

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